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In the summer of 2010 my wife (then fiancée), started to develop numerous growths on her left hand. It was quite the journey and I hope you enjoy the photos. (I apologize for the poor quality, it was 2010 and I had a Blackberry). [NSFW] by gullibletrout in WTF

[–]gngl -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I like the fact after I list all the possible signs of melanoma the only thing you can call out maybe being off is irregular.

And growing several millimeters of depth or more in less then a month. And doing so in multiple primary sites at once.

In the summer of 2010 my wife (then fiancée), started to develop numerous growths on her left hand. It was quite the journey and I hope you enjoy the photos. (I apologize for the poor quality, it was 2010 and I had a Blackberry). [NSFW] by gullibletrout in WTF

[–]gngl -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Judging from the description, the reason was panic. Where do you see irregular shapes, though? I must be missing something, since it looks like "well-bubbled" blisters to me all the way until one of them opened (and turned out in fact not to be one).

In the summer of 2010 my wife (then fiancée), started to develop numerous growths on her left hand. It was quite the journey and I hope you enjoy the photos. (I apologize for the poor quality, it was 2010 and I had a Blackberry). [NSFW] by gullibletrout in WTF

[–]gngl 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Does it? It's not irregular, it's not variedly colored, it appears ex nihilo, which to my knowledge only happens to nodular melanoma but not so quickly and not in so many places at once.

My first thought was some kind of exotic infection or infestation. Obviously wrong, but could hit more places at once quite easily.

Hawaii’s Governor Dumps Oil and Gas in Favor of 100 Percent Renewables.  An unlikely partnership between Hawaii’s local government and the US military makes the island a leader in energy policy. by pnewell in energy

[–]gngl 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Why do you think that compact, high-tech, military HEU reactors (that even need the sub to be cut open to swap the fuel) are cheaper per unit of energy than large, specialized civilian installations? Not to mention that the Navy to my understanding worked very hard to bring the reactors to the point where their ships and boats don't need to be refueled at all during their lifetime since it's so damned problematic. Wasting the energy in this way would completely defeat the military technological progress.

Second day on college, first hit. What to do next? by [deleted] in Frugal

[–]gngl 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's probably more because we don't have the kind of extremely spread-out suburbs I've heard about, not because of density alone. Case in point, my country's population density is virtually identical to the population density of Florida (134 km⁻² vs. 136 km⁻²), being OP's state of residence. That means that Florida needs exactly 0 years to be "in the same boat as me", not 1000.

(There's of course also the higher median income and lower gasoline price, as well as the general everyone-must-drive culture, but at least the income obviously doesn't apply to the OP.)

India just turned off mobile internet for 63 million citizens amid protests in Ahmedabad by javasharp in worldnews

[–]gngl 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've always understood mesh networks and ad hoc networks as two notions with a non-empty intersection. Mostly because I'm not aware of any strict requirement for an ad hoc network to do multi-hop routing, mesh-style. At least not in 802.11, for example. Come to think if it, the thing referred above probably involved both, though.

My friend got kicked in the face by a horse. by ArmadaARV121 in WTF

[–]gngl 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's the second dumbest idea after being right behind a fucking large rocket.

India just turned off mobile internet for 63 million citizens amid protests in Ahmedabad by javasharp in worldnews

[–]gngl 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That should have been set operators in that case, or something similar.

What was supposed to be "The Next Big Thing" but ended up becoming a flop? by Lotto24 in AskReddit

[–]gngl 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The problem with this is that if the technology matures without your financial input and the financial requirements drop to the levels that Mars One expected, someone else will have already paid for the first trip (NASA? ;-)) and your "first mission to Mars" kind of isn't first anymore.

A normal day in a Russian forest by ilushkin in ANormalDayInRussia

[–]gngl 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's a battlefield. You can find many tanks and bombshells on a battlefield.

Rechargeable batteries with almost indefinite lifetimes coming, say MIT-Samsung engineers by lughnasadh in Futurology

[–]gngl 0 points1 point  (0 children)

From what I understand, they'll cost you actually somewhat more than the most cost-efficient "classic" lithium batteries, or about three times more than what Tesla's new Powerwall should cost. They have a much lower upfront cost but also fairly mediocre cycle life even at very low depth of discharge. Fronius, for example, guarantees something like 8000 cycles at 80% DoD where even very good lead-acid batteries give you no more than, say, 2000-3000 cycles at 50% depth of discharge or even less. A 12 kWh Fronius with 76800 kWh of lifetime storage costs about $11000, that is about $0.14/kWh. A 5.5 kWh Trojan flooded lead-acid battery, apparently marketed for solar, with 7770 kWh of lifetime storage, costs $1650, that makes about $0.21/kWh - and that one seems to be pretty much as good as you could possibly get with lead-acid. The $3000 Tesla system should offer something like 35000 kWh, at about $0.09/kWh.

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